This an animation that I made a while back. I tried to find out how to easily use motion capture and cloth/softbody simulation in Blender. Thanks for watching, comments are welcome!
Credits:
Models made with MakeHuman 0.9.1 RC1,
music "Indian Saidi" from Ruben van Rompaey's album "Djembolale - Grooves and Moves", made with Blender, motions based on motion data from http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/

Blog post about this video: http://charliemcdonnell.com/balloon-animals/
Special thanks to http://www.balloon-animals.com - totally invaluable recourse for anyone looking to make their own balloon animals. So glad I found it, otherwise this video would have consisted of me blowing up balloons and then staring gormlessly at them, not having a clue where to start.
I have about 100 modeling balloons left. Who knows, maybe I'll take this up as an actual hobby. Thanks go to http://youtube.com/entendslamusique for submitting this challenge!
Intro voice-over by: http://youtube.com/michaelaranda
Outro voice-over by: http://stephenfry.com